Vol. 469 No. 5
208 Cecilia Keaveney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the current position in relation to the paying of a £2 per head increase on headage for ewe hoggets in the disadvantaged areas announced in December 1995. [17736/96]
209 Cecilia Keaveney asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and Forestry the current position in relation to the £1 per head increase on mountain ewes in the most severely disadvantaged areas announced in December 1995. [17737/96]
The European Commission agreed recently to my proposal to pay increases of £2 per hogget ewe and £1 per mountain breeding ewe under the 1996 disadvantaged areas sheep headage scheme. Payment of the normal rate of £10 per ewe under the 1996 sheep headage scheme has already commenced and I expect that payment of the increases in respect of hogget ewes and mountain breeding ewes will commence by early November.
